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Re: [multipathtcp] High-level design decisions /architecture

Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> Tue, 03 November 2009 04:07 UTC

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Hi,

On 2009-11-2, at 16:56, Joe Touch wrote:
> How do you know whether 5.6.7.8 is the same place as the first
> connection, or a new place? Don't you need to figure that out to know
> whether you end up with new capacity, or need to share capacity?


I don't think you care whether it's the same location or not - the  
linked congestion control proposal doesn't infer topology information  
from IP addresses.

Lars

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